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In line with my pledge to sustain and improve the security of lives and properties in our dear State. This morning, 34 newly acquired super motorcycles were handed over to the Abia State Police Command for effective Community Policing.

God Bless Abia State
T A Orji (Ochendo)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8sYFsG17Ik

RE: From The Press!
by T A Orji (Ochendo)


Special adviser to Abia State governor Ugochukwu Emezue has described recent claims of ACN governorship candidate in Abia Paul Ikonne, that Governor Orji’s thugs murdered one Friday Umah in cold blood, as a calculated attempt to rubbish the reputation of governor T.A Orji. Ikonne stated that the young man was killed at Okon Ohafia.

According to Ugochukwu Emezue, it has become Paul Ikonne’s stock in trade to levy unsubstantiated claims against the governor, since the campaign started.

Paul Ikonne has worked as a commissioner under Chief T.A (Though imposed by the former governor) and he knows that governor Orji abhors violence, Emezue added.

The special adviser warned Paul Ikonne to desist from making such allegations as government may be constrained to take legal action against him especially when those allegations border on murder.

For record purposes, the young man who died was a member of the P.D.P who decamped to the Party from PPA recently.

Its very unfortunate that Paul Ikonne who wants to govern Abia State does not cross check facts before making frivolous claims just to play to the gallery.

For the special adviser, Governor T.A Orji will remain focus on his quest to get the peoples mandate for the next four years, but will resist any attempt to rubbish his image built over years of hard work and service to the people of Abia State



Ugochukwu Emezue

Special Adviser on Media (Electronic)

Kalu’s senatorial ambition, the people’s wish – PPA chieftain
From OKEY SAMPSON, Aba
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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The entry of the former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu into the Abia North Senatorial race on the platform of the Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) has been described as not only the people’s wish but also that which would ensure equity and stabilise the polity in the senatorial zone.

Speaking on Kalu’s senatorial ambition, the PPA candidate for Bende Federal Constituency in the April polls, Chief Ben Kalu said the former governor’s entry into the race came at the right time, when going by the zoning formula adopted by the area, it was the turn of Bende Local Government to produce the next senator.

He said never in the history of Abia North had a person been allowed to go for a second term not to think of a third tenure as the present representative of the area in the Senate was now pushing for, stressing that if the people allowed that to happen, the political equation of the zone would have been destroyed.

The House of Representatives candidate said even in America, zoning works, which was why it was not possible to pick the president, his vice and the secretary of state from the same area, maintaining that in Abia North, “zoning has been adopted for donkey years which has ensured stability in the zone. “It (zoning) is fundamental principle of political science that has been adopted by Abia North from time past, which has ensured better political distribution as well as development among the people.”

Chronicling how zoning had been applied in different elections in the area, Kalu said, “Senator Simeon Ojukwu from Item in Bende Local Government was the first to represent Abia North in the Senate. He was followed by Sen. Onyekachi Okoroafor from Abiriba in Ohafia Local Government. Then, Senators Emma Nwaka and Ike Nwachukwu from Isuikwuato and presently Sen. Uche Chukwumerije from Umunneochi Local Government who has been there for eight years, the only person that has represented the zone for two terms.”

Kalu said from all indications, it was the turn of Bende Local Government to produce someone that would represent the district at the Senate, a position which he said the former governor was better placed to occupy having served his people creditably when he was governor of the state. He said people of the senatorial zone had no difficulty in identifying with Kalu’s ambition since when he was the governor of the state, he did much for the people of the area.

In the same vein, Kalu opined that going by the zoning arrangement in Bende, it was the turn of the South to produce who would represent the local government at the House of Representatives. He said it was in the spirit of the zoning that made him to wait for eight years before eventually clinching the ticket this time around.

To buttress his point that it was the turn of Bende South, Kalu said, “Ogwe K. Ogwe from Bende North kick-started it, followed by Orji Uzor Kalu also from the North. After him, two other persons from the North, including the present occupier of the post, have tested the seat while the South could only boast of representing the area just once.”

@ NL, Please also always confirm what you post at the front page for people to read,
This ACN candidate is looking for cheap publicity.
This guy running for Abia Guber Election is owing a lot of people who worked with him in the past, remember he served at various capacity in this same administration as Commissioner of Works, Commissioner for Public Utilities and also he was Chairman of Abia Transport Network.
He said T. A Orji Campaign Youth group storm the venue, and started shooting indiscriminately , can you see any group here or any sign of shooting.

They should look for other means of publicity instead of dragging the name of Governor T.A Orji into an issue he knows nothing about.

Na today, i just dey laugh

What I won’t take as Buhari’s VP — Bakare
By DURO ADESEKO
Saturday, February 5, 2011



Pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, surprised Nigerians recently when he agreed to be the running mate of General Muhammadu Buhari, presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), in forthcoming general elections. Nigerians know him as a fiery preacher with many devoted followers.

The preacher made his way into national politics, as the convener of the Save Nigerian Group (ANG), when the late President Umar Yar’Adua was ill and receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia. He led men and women to protest, on the streets of Abuja and Lagos, over what he saw as a vacuum in the Presidency.
In this interview, Bakare justified his decision to pair with Buhari in the April presidential election. Revealed how Buhari called to offer him the position of a running mate, he said he was initially reluctant but later changed his mind, after consulting with people who have a stake in his life.

The pastor is confident that Nigerians would embrace the social contract the CPC is offering the people. He challenged the PDP presidential and vice presidential candidates to a television debates. It is also his prayers that the progressives in Nigeria would come together to face the PDP at the general elections.

You were not known to be a member of the CPC. How did General Muhammadu Buhari pick you as his running mate?
The General would be the appropriate person to answer that question. But I am sure he is a man of deep thought, as reflected in his politics and the circumstances of the nation. He extended that hand of fellowship to us and offered us this to serve the country. But he would be the appropriate person to answer how and why he did what he did.

But you could tell us why you accepted the nomination when you have a church where you preside?
You know that it would have taken a lot of consideration, consultation and prayers. But that not withstanding, to whom much is given, much is expected. I use this opportunity to articulate not just in words what we believe in and the factors we have spent quality time on, which we know can turn Nigeria around. There is a great opportunity to put into practice those things we have learnt and those things we know can work. There are those things others have said over time can push Nigeria forward. At the bottom of the critical decision is the care for our country.

Some said you are not of any electoral value, as you are not a politician.
How do you react to that?
Those who said I have no electoral value are entitled to their opinion. I remember when Chief Obafemi Awolowo began the Action Group (AG); the NCNC that had predominance before he ventured into Nigerian politics, as it were, said he had no electoral value. But he won the election. Nigerians are not blind and they are not deaf. They can see and they can hear and they are putting their thoughts together. The elections of 2011 are different from previous elections.

How?
The bulk of those who will vote don’t even have party allegiance. They want to vote for those they know fear God. They would vote those who love the country and love the people and want to see change.

What experience are you going to bring to the job, if elected, as people say you have no political experience?
I do not doubt that they are entitled to their opinion. But if you are a student of the Bible and you read your scriptures and the word of God, Joseph was a prisoner and not even a pastor. He came out of prison and his only experience was when he was in his father’s house at the age of 17 and then he was sent into slavery. His only experience at resource management was human resource, material resource that he gathered in the house of Potifer. From there, he was lied against; he was sent to prison, and he was never a lawyer or a pastor and he rose out of prison to become a world class ruler. People should know that in the process of doing other things, we have been learning how to deal with human situations and national project is just an extension of that.

If elected, what will happen to your church?
My love for God and love for the people of God cannot wane. I relocated to the United States in 2000 with my family. Between then and 2010, when we returned home, nobody knew my family even relocated because at least one Sunday in a month, I was in church. If it would not be out of place for the president to go to mosque on Friday, it cannot be out of place for me to go to church to fellowship on Sundays.

That means you will continue to preach?
I will continue to serve my God in whatever capacity is allowed by law and given time, because it is a new role and new responsibilities would come with it. I can’t say you will see me going everywhere preaching, but I will still serve my God. It is not only by preaching that you serve God. There are other ways that you serve God. Those in government are considered ministers of God too. The Bible talks about all that Jesus began to do and to teach. So, the doing comes before the preaching. It is called the Acts of Apostles and not the preaching of the Apostles. So, let us not put the cart before the horse. But that does not mean that I will never preach again. I will continue to serve God and testify about His goodness.

How would you marry politics with Christianity, as people believe that politics is very dirty?
The problem with many that raise such question is simple: they believe politics is dirty and good men and God-fearing men shouldn’t go into politics. The more such men are not in politics, the more dirty people get into politics. The scripture says when the righteous is in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, they moan, they groan. Do we want to continue groaning? Politics is dirty because dirty people are in it. If clean men get there, they will equally clean the atmosphere.

You came to national political scene, so to say, when you convene the Save Nigerian Group (SNG). You did not tell Nigerians that you would be contesting 2011 election? What happened?
I never anywhere said I will seek elective office or I would join a party. That wasn’t my contemplation. But when the General (Buhari) made the call on January the 15, I was home in Lagos. He said: if I will accept, he will consider it a great honour by accepting to be his running mate. My first natural reaction was to say thanks, but no, thanks. I am content with what I am doing. I told the whole world that I was not going this way. I am a man of my words. I keep myself out of the bargain. I wish you well. And he said: “you have not only told the world, you have told me too. But I want you to please consider and call me back.” The process of responding took some days and hours of real thinking, critical thinking and talking to stakeholders in my life – the church, my family and elderly people in the kingdom of God. When I was convinced that it was a right thing to do, I told him, yes, I will run with you.

It was Martin Luther King Junior who said: “At critical moment when certain positions are to be taken, different dimensions would begin to crop up.” For instance: cowards would ask: “ Is it safe?” Vanity would ask: “Is it popular?” Those who are politically correct would ask: “Is it politic?” But conscience would ask: “Is it right?” Is it right for a man to offer his services to the nation? That is what we should be talking about. Am I disqualified in any form? That should be the issue. If I can vote and be voted for and there is nothing against me doing that, why not? Let us all rise and bring quality men, God-fearing men and women into our polity to save our nation and pull it back from the brink.

What is the state of the alliance talks with other political parties?
Regardless of what is out there in the press, we still consider it an important factor to our electoral victory in 2011. If PDP must be roundly defeated at the polls, those who consider themselves progressives must put Nigeria first at this time. The problem that I think we have is that those who desire to function in the public arena sometimes have ego bigger than the nation they want to rule. But with trustful give and take and putting the nation first above our personal agenda, it will require that we come together and face election against PDP. I think that is still going on and it is still continuing. There maybe individuals that do not think so, but I tell you that it would happen.

What has been responsible for the parties not being able to reach an understanding to work together?
There is a committee working on this. They are working on different alliances and MOUs and they are better equipped to answer that question. You know I am just coming in and it is not proper to pass comments on what you have not been briefed thoroughly about. I was aware that those discussions are going on. From behind the scene, we encouraged it. We will still encourage it now. We will reach out to others and let them know this is not about us. It is about our nation, let us work together.

Does the CPC, as a party, have the structure, from local government to ward to face the octopus PDP at the 2011 polls?
The CPC, as a new party, is gaining ground by the day. As we are talking now, more people are rushing in; more offices have been opened. The PDP has been in office for 12 years and CPC came in a few months ago. So, you cannot compare their structure. But the truth of it is that Rome was not built in a day. We are putting structures in place. The one that are in existence are functioning and more will come. Before you know it, the remaining period that we have before the elections, people would be surprised about how many people of goodwill are willing to support and create that structure. When there is a will, there is a way.

General Buhari is not known to be a rich man and you are not known to be a millionaire. How do you hope to raise fund for the election?
Nigerians must come to terms with whether they want to continue to monetise politics, so that people would spend billions only to get into power and loot the treasury. We want to deemphasise that. Yes, General Buhari may not be a rich man and, like you have said, I may not be a millionaire also. But you know that if God is in a movement, he would raise men to give to them.

Remember Jesus was born in a manger and wise men came from the East to give him gifts. Not only that, Barack Obama, when he was going to the 2004 convention of his party, he put in his card and he was rejected and a few years later, he became the president of America. Ordinary people gave to them and we know once this thing starts, ordinary people, men and women, boys and girls of goodwill, would not only give resources, in terms of money, but their time, their talent, their energy and their ability to mobilize their friends, their relations and their territory of influence to vote. At the end of the day, money politics would fail in Nigeria.

What is the ideology of CPC? How do you integrate yourself into the system?
We talk about ideology, as if we are still polarising the world. I am talking about eastern world and western world, as if we are talking about capitalism and communism. Time has moved beyond that. The purpose of government is the welfare of the people of the country. That is the priority of government. That people’s needs are met; that we ensure there is security. That is the ideology of the hour. With all the billions voted for security, we see the insecurity in our land. That must stop. Corruption must not continue to eat into the fabric of our nation. The central ideology is that Nigeria must be saved. It must be changed and become great in our lifetime and the people of this country must not continue to suffer in the midst of plenty. Whatever policies, whatever programme we are putting in place would be articulated in our contract with Nigeria so that they know that it is not about us; it is not about title; it is not about popularity but the people of this country.

If the like of Awolowo, the like of the Ahmadu Bello, Azikiwe and the like of Okpara did not live beyond self, some of us would not be here today. Awolowo blazed so much people-oriented programme that gave the like of us education at that critical point of our national history. Where are those men? They must return and their values must come back and we must make people the focus of governmental programme, not just building fantasies in the air and voting billions on what would not touch the lives of ordinary people. If we can get to the root of the matter and make people the focus of our attention and the purpose of government to be the welfare of the people, that is the ideology that I will embrace and I believe CPC will embark upon.

What would be the thrust of your social contract with the Nigerian people?
It cannot be business as usual. The local government chairman would come in broke and they will go home building mansions and all things. Funds that are voted for specific project would be executed within timeline and it would be obvious and evident to all Nigerians. You can be rest assured, I do not think I will come back richer than I am going in. I probably would come back broke. I don’t intend to touch anybody’s money but to put attention where it matters and to focus our energy on the development of the nation. You know you can trust General Buhari for that also. He has proved it over the years.

He is the only head of state without a petrol station. He has only two houses, one in Daura and they are just basic houses. He has no oil rig or oil well. He has no foreign account. He has no house abroad. He has lived even within his pension up to this time. He was petroleum minister and has no cent or one dollar per barrel sticking to his fingers. He has been governor in this country. He was Petroleum Trust Fund executive chairman and not a dime was traceable to him as being fraudulent. I think what Nigerians are face to face with is one vote for two honest men.

It is good you spoke about General Buhari this way, but you were once quoted to have said neither Buhari, nor Babangida nor Obasanjo would be part of the emerging Nigeria. Now, you are Buhari’s running mate.

How do you reconcile the contradiction?
The Christian word Messiah is saviour of souls and of the world and I don’t like such words being used for mere men. The best of men are still men at the very best. I won’t call any man messiah. Everyman will contribute his quota to the development of the nation. I know men who are rising, who are going to do their best. Using the word Messiah is making man God. That is what I want to communicate. But besides that, you did not quote me accurately. What you are saying was in 2006 October. I said some of these old men should allow young men to operate, to come into power.

But the truth of it is that emphasis of the hour. The current emphasis of the hour is not generational shift but generational integration so that older and the younger can come together as demonstrated by Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Yakubu Gowon. Awolowo could father Gowon. He was 57 when Gowon was 30; they worked together to save Nigeria from that terrible time of our people in cold blood. May God heal the wound that it affected in our nation. Time has come for the young and the old, male and female to cooperate together and move on. 2006 quotation is not applicable to 2011. That was then, this is now.

You were quoted as saying in the interview that neither of them would be president?
In 2007, did they become president? They didn’t. That was my opinion for 2007. I didn’t say 2011 and I didn’t say they would never be president forever.

So, pastor, your opinion now is different from your opinion at the time?
Definitely, it is different. Remember, that is not peculiar to man. Even God Almighty spoke to Eli and said: “I said, now I say.” It is in the Bible. So, proceeding word is not what was said but the proceeding word of the hour is: this is the time of change. Nigeria has embraced this change. They would vote for God-fearing people who love this country and have demonstrated that they are not interested in materialism and they cannot be bought by gold but can put gold to use for the benefit of the society.

Many see you and Buhari as two strong characters. How do you avoid a clash when you have different opinions on issues?
There cannot be a clash. Issues would be debated, if my attention is called. The constitution is very clear on who the boss is. I can only make known to him when and as when necessary if I see a different perspective. But that does not make me lord it over him, as long as the decision being taking is in the interest of not only the electorate and the people who voted us into power. He would not undermine the security of our people and those who voted us into power. There are bound to be differences in opinion, but it doesn’t have to create clashes. Do you have differences with your wife and you still live together? That is the way it would be.

Under what circumstance can you resign?
I have firm principles I fought over the years. You don’t compromise principle, or you destroy yourself. General Buhari is also a man of principle. I don’t think either of us would violate the principle of uprightness, the principle of fairness, justice, fair play and the principle of individual liberty and freedom. Creating environment for our people to maximise their potentials and turn this country to a great country in our live time. If those things are never violated and I don’t see them being violated, there cannot be a reason for me to say I am resigning. If anything touches on my faith or compromise my faith in God or my values or my belief that people’s welfare should be the concern of government, it would be spoken loud and clear. But this is not a battle in which we are going with the mindset of resigning. Those who put their hands on the plough and turn back are not fit for the kingdom of God.

You are not just a Christian but also a leading pastor. General Buhari is a strong Muslim. Do you think he settled for you because of the need for Muslim /Christian ticket?
General Buhari is the one to be asked that question. I will not be answering for him. We had interactions. Not only with him but even the sitting president and other political heavy weights in the country. If he makes his choice, he knows the values he was looking for. I am sure he knows those values. There are other leading Christians well known better than I am. If he didn’t call them, he must have his reasons. We seize the moment to contribute our quarter. That he is a strong Muslim and I am a strong Christian should remove the doubt of anyone trying to Islamise Nigeria.

It is absurd and it is in the mind of propagandists who are spreading the rumour. It will surprise you to know that Buhari’s driver is a Christian and he has been with him for more than 10 years. This is not known to the whole world. All those who say Buhari has done this or that, let them show prove that one day, this is what he did and he has used his position either as governor, minister or as head of state at any time to deprive any Christian of what rightly belongs to him. How many people knew that when they were in power, Idiagbon’s wife was a Christian?
For a change, God is giving us the best of the North and the best of the South to come together to steered the ship of our country.

How do you hope to move the people of the South West to CPC? The ACN is domineering in the area.
Once upon a time, the NCNC was so domineering in Western Region that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe contested to become the premier of the western region. But another person arose and swept the carpet and became the dominant person. Intrigues and other things followed. But the truth of the matter is: the South western people are very enlightened. They know what they want. They know it when they see it. They have values and when the time comes, they will answer. You can’t call monkey a dog. They know the difference. We are building alliances with all stakeholders in the South West. If alliance with the ACN does not work, direct alliance with the people will work.

What is wrong with Jonathan government that you and Buhari want to take over from him?
It is a question to be addressed at the appropriate time in a debate. I hope we would have a live television debate.

Are you calling for a debate?
I am calling for one so that the issues can be faced. The 12 years of reckless display of power and I-don’t-care attitude of PDP. You ask them how many civilians have died in the course of riot and religious crisis in the country. They don’t know. Why don’t they know? It is because they don’t care. The theme for 2011 should be anything but PDP and the best we can see is CPC: General Buhari and my humble self.

@NL, I wonder the kind of advice you ppl r giving here, from my own experience as a married man.
She does not need all d stories. She is already married for christ sake, white or no white. Traditional marriage is d most legit, cos that's were d bride price was paid. What advice does vera need again. Y would you allow someone to propose to you for d second time when you already have wedding arrangements going on.

If you dated ur school lover for 15 good years and ended d relationship to marry another man due to slight misunderstanding, to me it means you never really love him. If you do love him, dis will not b d only time in ur relationship that you ever had misunderstanding, you should be able to know from his emotions if he truly care or not, for 15yrs you can not tell if ur lover is still caring,
You need divine direction to overcome this situation.


Ur married I bet you better stay were ur, or else you will regret whatever plans you going to make as regards to ur ex.

So d INEC chairman's name culd pass 4 Goodluck's initials,
J. E. G. A = Jonathan Ebele Goodluck Azikiwe.

whats ur last price,

Breaking News: Uduaghan Declear Winner of Delta State Re:Run Election

Abia State has been Liberated from the self glorified criminals of Igbere Dynasty.

T A Orji is a leader loved by his people

Instead of venturing into Humanitarian services to his people, he looted Abia dry only to setup Banks, InsurAnce Companies, Airline and other businesses he setup while he was d governor of Abia State. His Camp Neya Country Home shows it was commissioned a day before he was sworn in as Abia state Governor, can you imagine how corny this glorified criminal is. The mansion was actually built by Abia State Fund, because Kalu does not have any business staying in his village before he became the governor of Abia State.


You need to see display of public funds in that village.

The school is only meant to further intimidate his people, not by bringing them development because non of their sons and daughters will be capable financially to attend that school. So what then are we walking about? LOOT FROM THE POOR TO SERVICE THE RICH AND THEIR CRONNIES. You see how man can course man untold hardship and suffering.

I wonder why this clown is being celebrated, over 60% of Abia Wealth for 8 Solid years was diverted into personal pockets of Kalu, her mother excellency, brothers and close pals from Igbere and others.

I wonder why a deputy Governor could go that low to make those comments while the state university is under lock and key?
Time will tell how this fraud star will continue deceiving his people and Nigeria in General.

Kalu is now a political liability to the entire igbo land, he has never been an igbo leader and will never be. He was able to fraudulently and criminally sell himself, he created so much hardship for his people who gave him their mandate to rule over them for 8 years.

He was never a contender for the exalted position and will never be, not to talk of stepping down. He is just looking for ways to get cheap publicity so as to help him campaign for his partner in crime Chris Akomas he is planning to foist on Abia State, who he sees as his private business. His earlier intention was to destabilize Abia State by sponsoring all sorts of crime Like, Kidnapping, Armed Robberies, Assassinations, Rape and blackmail while Chris Akomas the arrow head. They succeeded is causing mayhem to the people of abia state and environs. He has lost touch with the Gods for no seeing the hand written clearly on the wall.

If Thief Uzor Kalu this he is still relevant, let him first go contest for a Local Governorship Election in his LG, which he can never win not to talk of contesting and winning an election for the highest office in our land.

Have you head of his mother lately, since she went underground hiding her dirty and wrinkle face. Since they were cut of from deeply tapping into abia state treasury. Shame on them, after claiming God and raining supreme all over abia state for years.

Even kalu's slowpoke younger brother who is a federal house representative will never smell that position again in his life. In fact the family is doomed.

For more of this visit abianews..com

Nigeria is above this crap poppy dog shit from this Lunatic suffering from Mad Cow Disease and the 9 lepers supporting him. The violence will only start from their Lepers Republic. Even the shameless General who is supposed to still be mourning his latewife and grand mother is now ready to dance naked just because he too is infected with same mad cow disease. If its truly a northern agenda, meaning these are the best they can present. I can send desperation fear of GEJ rising profile here. God Almighty will pronounce judgment on these lepers treating the unity and stability of our great nation Nigeria. Long Live the federal Republic of Nigeria. Amen.

@denitro
Are you not a criminal. Prove it here.

Dede Osisikankwu , goodbye. It remains your 3,000
followers who according to your sponsored advert paid
for by Comrade 'Crisis' Akomas.

We hope they will still have balls to carry out your threat against govt come 2011 election. Well until they read ur will.

The notorious Abia Kidnap Kingpin (Osisi Ka Nkwu)
was killed in a gunfight with Military Task Force some
hours ago. He was killed in the jungles of Abia, not
far from Aba. Trying to fight the Army head on. The
kidnapper led by Osisi Ka Nkwu have terrorised the
South-Eastern States of Nigeria for a long time and
seemed above the law. Information reaching
elombah.com indicates that two days ago, TRYON
provided security intelligence which aided the
military to attack Osisikankwu.
The military missed him on that occasion but got his
armourer and recovered the following arms: 2
GPMGs, 3 RPG bombers, 20 pieces of RPG bombs, 93
empty magazines of AK47, 1 50 liters filled with live
armunitions, 8 pieces of AK47 guns. Those hunting
for him have have been in the bush since yesterday
on the look out for him. But he was captured at last.
The elimination of this notorious Osisikankwu is
significant for many reasons. At least it has sent a
message to all other kidnappers who think that their
strategy and elusiveness is impeccable to think
again. They now know that run and hide, come rain,
come shine, there shall be a day of reckoning. He was
very lucky and perhaps some higher level connectors
were also dam lucky that Osisikankwu was not
captured alive. At least he would have been forced to
reveal some of the highly placed individuals behind
the kidnapping syndicate.
Osisikankwu had previously demanded for the
amnesty that was granted to the militants in the
Niger Delta be extended to him. But this morning a
commentator joked that Osisikankwu's lawyer can
now sue the military for the wrongful death of
Osisikankwu and demand the amnesty to be paid to
him and said "Good radiance for absolute nonsense".
Osisi ka Nkwu (Lord of the Forest) is rumours in some
quarters to be one of the most notorious kidnappers
in the South-East.
A son of the soil, his second in  command, popularly
known as ‘STONE, is from Imo State. Osisi Ka Nku
lived in Ogwe, in the Asa area of the town, close to
Aba. Reputed as the most violent and daring of the
kingpins in Aba, Osisi ka Nkwu is said to have been
an Orji (Orji Uzor Kalu) Boy.

Edo Line must not die under Comrade Adams Oshiomhole,

Is Abia State University the only University on strike?

It is clear that even an idiot knows that this British conception will never last. The British formed a nation from people of immense ethnic and religious backgrounds. It is obvious that Britain considered its interest of easy governance and not the interest of Nigerians in forming Nigeria. Events, both political,religious and ethnic have shown that Nigeria will take the destiny of Yugoslavia. We have been for years talked about ethnocentrism as the cancerous tissue that destroys and finally will lead Nigeria to disintegration and some myopic people fail to see what we see even from across the ocean.Today what we have seen for years is gradually manifesting itself.History has it in record that countries made of Muslims and Christians never survive. Typical examples are Yugoslavia, Somalia and Sudan.Human beings of these two religious ideologies cannot cohabit in a nation. It is sad and bitter but I am a very realistic human being. The earlier we start discussing on how we can peacefully separate the better for all of us , including the unborn. We must not wait until another bloodshed.

Abia Gov's task NAPPS on Standard of Education

The wife of the governor, Her Excellency, Chief (Mrs.) Mercy Odochi Orji has tasked National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) to form a strong alliance with relevant governmental agencies in fighting the menace of dwindling standard of education in the country.

Chief (Mrs.) Orji stated that NAPPS has great role to play in ensuring that the education sector regain its lost glory by reversing the falling standard and the propondence of special examinations centre which does not encourage hardwork and excellence for the sake of our future leaders.

Speaking in her office after receiving an “Excellent Leadership Award” from the association as part of the sixth annual convention/award ceremony in Enugu, Chief (Mrs.) Orji said that the scourge of the dwindling standard of education and special exams centres does not augur well for the development of the country and time has come for a concerted efforts by all the stakeholders for this crusade to achieve meaningful result.

She stated that since education remained the best investment parents bequeathed to their children, concerted efforts must be made to ensure that quality and qualitative education are provided under a conducive environment to guarantee their future.

Chief (Mrs.) Orji thanked the association for the honour done her and assured that she would not relent in the complimentary governance role and humanitarian empowerment programmes that have imparted positively on the lives of the people of the state.

Earlier while presenting the award, the state chairman of the association, Mazi Enyinnaya Harbor said that Her Excellency was singled out for the award for among those who have contributed to the upliftment of education through her pet project- Hannah-May Foundation and the Family Empowerment programee with skills acquisition centre as its focal point.

Mazi Harbor stated that Her Excellency has distinguished herself in leadership and in uplifting the living standard of the people through numerous programme she has initiated and which have impacted on various aspects of human and state lives.

In a related development, the girl’s guide of the Umuahia Diocesan Anglican Church has also bestowed an award of “Great Mother of Honour” on Chief (Mrs.) Orji for uplifting the horn of womanhood and for representing the womenfolk positively in governance and other endeavours.

Handing over the award she received on her behalf, the Former Commissioner for Education, Dr. (Mrs.) Rose Ekeleme said that the guide recognised spiritual, economic and political programmes of Her Excellency which have made her the Deborah and Dorcas of our time.

Dr. (Mrs) Ekeleme said the visionary and purposeful leadership and mentoring-ship of Her Excellency on young women have made her the toast of young girls desiring to impact positively on their society

De Ultimate Commander's Pre-Fight in North Carolina- Oct. 16, 2010 (Tag Team Member- Big Ben)

I think this African, De Ultimate Commander will beat all the WWE Champions



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEcRWuV89Y8

There are also other ethnic groups from the South South residing and doing business in Abia State, I have met so many Edo people who have been leaving and working in Abia State for over 20 to 35 years now,

Osisikankwu's hit man, 448 other kidnap suspects arrested
Pupils' school bus, 23 other vehicles recovered
From OKEY SAMPSON, Aba
Monday, November 15, 2010


The hit man of Abia kidnap kingpin, Obioma Nwankwo a.k.a. Osisikankwu and 448 other suspects have been arrested. Osisikankwu had, in an interview he allegedly granted a national daily (not Daily Sun) last week, claimed that none of his 3,000 members had been located and arrested, saying those arrested by soldiers were innocent persons.

But dismissing the claim with wave of the hand while addressing a group of select journalists in his office at the army camp at Asa High School in Ukwa West Local Government, Maj. Gen. Sarkin Yaki Bello said the army had been meticulous in its operations in Abia, adding that no innocent citizen had been made to suffer the crime of the hoodlums.

He said one of the hit men of Osisikankwu had been arrested and that very soon, the kingpin himself would be apprehended. Bello said the army does not believe in Osisikankwu and his antics, adding that the soldiers were drafted to Aba to restore peace to the city and not to join issues with criminals.

Earlier, while taking newsmen round the camp to inspect some recovered vehicles, the Assistant Director, Public Relations of 82 Division, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said since the army began operations in Abia on September 28, a total number of 449 suspected kidnappers had been arrested from different locations in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Imo and Rivers states. He stated that out of the suspects, 79 were transferred to State Security Services (SSS), Abia State command for further investigation and possible prosecution. He also said after investigations, 171 of the suspects, who were not found culpable, were released.

Musa further said presently, 183 suspects were in detention, and after thorough investigation those found not liable would be released while the rest would be transferred to SSS for further action. Two men in possession of 11 bags of Indian hemp who were also arrested by soldiers were handed over to National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The 82 Div image maker reeled out further achievements of the JTF in Abia which include restoration of public confidence in the security forces; the rescue of 15 children of Abayi International School and four female corps members; recovery of assorted arms and ammunition from different locations in Ugwuati, Umuezi and Abala evil forest; destruction of many local arms manufacturing factories at Abala evil forest and the recovery of 24 vehicles of different brands belonging to kidnap victims including the recovery last Thursday of the school bus conveying the 15 rescued children to school,

A Montenegrin man made an unsuccessful suicide attempt in front of shocked funeral home staffers after he purchased a coffin, climbed in and shot himself.

Milo Bogisic paid cash for the casket at Palma Funerals in Podgorica before he wrote out his obituary and climbed into the coffin. He then put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger.

The 52-year-old man survived the blast when the bullet passed through his chin and nose, missing his brain, Ananova reports.

Police said Bogisic was having family problems and was even more devastated when he “hadn’t managed to end it all.”

To add insult to injury, the funeral home refused to give him a refund on the coffin.

Heartless b@$T@rd$.

A man who makes caskets was going to deliver one of his coffins when his car broke down.
Trying not to be late for the delivery, he put the coffin on his head and began heading to his destination.

The Nigerian Police saw him and wanted to make some money off him so they challenged him and asked:

"where u dey carry dat thing go?!"

Trust an Igbo man with his Igbo sense, he answered:

"Officer, eehm, abeg, I no like the place where dem BURY me, so i dey try relocate, !!"

Come see how Police take off! Dem no wait o!!

The Abia State Government, yesterday, said it has uncovered a plot by some people to smuggle 50 suspected kidnappers out of the country.

Kingsley Emeruwa, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, who disclosed this while briefing journalists at the government house, said the state government has reported the case to the inspector general of police. According to him, a member of the group, who he said is a relative of the former personal assistant to the impeached Deputy Governor, Chris Akomas, impersonated the substantive Deputy Governor, Eric Nwakanma, to ask for a waiver from the South African Embassy for entry visas for 50 persons who they claimed were to undergo training on project management and window server. The state government’s spokesperson said a letter from the South African embassy to the government asking for confirmation drew attention to the scam.

Reduced crime rate

Mr Emerua, who also said kidnapping in the state has reduced following the invitation of soldiers to the state, said the state Governor, Theodore Orji, has banned any form of reception party by any group for the soldiers. He also said the governor has requested that nobody should place any advertorial for him on his birthday, but instead donate the money that would have been used for such venture to charity.

The Special Adviser to the governor on security matters, Awa Agwu, denied media reports that between 12 and 15 persons were kidnapped in Aba last week. According to him, kidnapping in the state has dropped to the barest minimum. Mr Agwu said political opponents of the government are using the press to write things that are not factual, and urged journalists to crosscheck their facts before publication. “The prevalence of crime in Abia is below 15% and we commend the Army for a job well done in the fight against kidnapping,” he said

Philip Emeagwali (born 1954) is a Nigerian-born computer scientist who was one of five winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell prize , a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyse petroleum fields. He received 1000 USD for this award.

He is often featured in the popular press as a prominent African-American or Nigerian scientist, and claims on his website to be the "World's Most Searched-For Scientist", "Second Most Searched-For Nigerian", and "Eighth Most Searched-For African". He has received numerous other awards, ranging from one from the World Bank- IMF Africa Club to recognition as one of "Essence magazine's ten most beautiful men".

Emeagwali heavily promotes himself as a speaker for conferences. A large number of websites [1] [2] named after famous inventors and other great achievers, particularly African ones, have been created to promote Emeagwali. They feature brief biographies of them (copied verbatim from sources such as Project Gutenberg public domain texts and the World Book Encyclopedia), surrounded by many links to Emeagwali's site. The large number of links to Emeagwali's main site also boosts the prominence of it in search engines. The relevant domain name whoisWhois is a protocol for submitting a query to a database for determining the owner of a domain name, an IP network, or an autonomous system number. For instance a whois query on wikipedia. org results in the following: Domain ID:D51687756-LROR Domain Name records list Donita Brown, Emeagwali's wife, as the technical and administrative contact.
1 Court case

Emeagwali studied for a PhD degree from the University of MichiganThe University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the oldest and main campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes branches University of Michigan-Dearborn and University of Michi from 1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and was thus not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a court challenge, claiming that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan state Court of Appeals.
2 Emeagwali's popular media claims

Emeagwali, on his website, claims that the Gordon Bell prize has been called "supercomputing's Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme comme". While it is a significant prize in the relatively narrow field of supercomputing, it is not in any way comparable in financial rewards, prestige, or recognition to the Nobel Prizes. In the wider field of computing, the Turing AwardTuring Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer f is regarded as by far the most prestigious award.

Emeagwali, cites CNN as describing him as "a father of the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu", a claim that has been widely repeated in the popular press. This claim has not been paid much attention in the computer science and Internet communities. Emeagwali bases his claim on the notion that "the Supercomputer is the father of the internet", in that both a supercomputer and the Internet can be viewed as an interconnected network of processing units working cooperatively.

Supercomputers, and parallel processing, predate Emeagwali's work by decades. ENIACENIAC short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete, capable of being reprogrammed by rewiring to solve a full range of computing problems. It was preceded in 1941 by the fully, arguably the first general-purpose digital computer, featured some level of parallel processing. The first supercomputers described as such were probably those developed by a team led by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation. The Connection Machine hardware itself was developed by a team at Thinking Machines by a team featuring a number of well-known computer scientists, at least partly based on founder Danny Hillis's doctoral work. The machines were used for a number of purposes well before Emeagwali's contribution.

The Internet was born out of an interest in connecting disparate computer networks and has been used for a large number of purposes. Many different technologies from the 1960s and 1970s, including packet switching and local area networks, contributed to its development. It is generally agreed that Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn were key figures behind the early development of the protocols used by the Internet, but a huge number of other people contributed to improvments to this basic technology, implementing it on a wide variety of computers and making this implementation widely available, and developing the services that use the infrastructure of the internet (such as Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web). Most of this work occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Emeagwali has not provided any evidence of involvement with any of this work. Supercomputing researchers often made use of the internet as a way of remotely accessing machines; this is one of many applications of the Internet.

Emeagwali has not had any articles published in any journals or conferences published by the IEEE or the Association for Computing Machinery, the two largest and most prestigious bodies in the field of computing.

Some web sites state that he holds patents, for instance an article at the Lemelson-MIT inventor program [3], states that he "holds more than 30 patents". He is not listed in the USPTO patent database, which holds fully searchable records of all US patents dating back to 1976, nor in its pending application database, as of April 2004.

Emeagwali also claims to have performed the "world's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989" [4]. This is false; Emeagwali's Gordon Bell Prize was awarded for the best price/performance ratio; the winning entry in the absolute performance category performed almost double the number of calculations. The winning entry in the performance category also had a superior price/performance ratio to Emeagwali's solution; the judges decided to award only one prize to each entry and as the second-best entry Emeagwali received the price/performance prize [5]. In subsequent years, various supercomputers have been used to perform computations far faster and more cost-effectively than Emeagwali as the inevitable result of Moore's Law and improvement in programming techniques.

Please send me the cash??

Philip Emeagwali (born 1954) is a Nigerian-born computer scientist who was one of five winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell prize , a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyse petroleum fields. He received 1000 USD for this award.

He is often featured in the popular press as a prominent African-American or Nigerian scientist, and claims on his website to be the "World's Most Searched-For Scientist", "Second Most Searched-For Nigerian", and "Eighth Most Searched-For African". He has received numerous other awards, ranging from one from the World Bank- IMF Africa Club to recognition as one of "Essence magazine's ten most beautiful men".

Emeagwali heavily promotes himself as a speaker for conferences. A large number of websites [1] [2] named after famous inventors and other great achievers, particularly African ones, have been created to promote Emeagwali. They feature brief biographies of them (copied verbatim from sources such as Project Gutenberg public domain texts and the World Book Encyclopedia), surrounded by many links to Emeagwali's site. The large number of links to Emeagwali's main site also boosts the prominence of it in search engines. The relevant domain name whoisWhois is a protocol for submitting a query to a database for determining the owner of a domain name, an IP network, or an autonomous system number. For instance a whois query on wikipedia. org results in the following: Domain ID:D51687756-LROR Domain Name records list Donita Brown, Emeagwali's wife, as the technical and administrative contact.
1 Court case

Emeagwali studied for a PhD degree from the University of MichiganThe University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public coeducational university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the oldest and main campus of the University of Michigan, which also includes branches University of Michigan-Dearborn and University of Michi from 1987 through 1991. His thesis was not accepted by a committee of internal and external examiners and was thus not awarded the degree. Emeagwali filed a court challenge, claiming that the decision was a violation of his civil rights and that the university had discriminated against him in several ways because of his race. The court challenge was dismissed, as was an appeal to the Michigan state Court of Appeals.
2 Emeagwali's popular media claims

Emeagwali, on his website, claims that the Gordon Bell prize has been called "supercomputing's Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prizes (pronounced no-BELL or no-bell are awarded annually to people who have done outstanding research, invented groundbreaking techniques or equipment, or made outstanding contributions to society. It is generally regarded as the supreme comme". While it is a significant prize in the relatively narrow field of supercomputing, it is not in any way comparable in financial rewards, prestige, or recognition to the Nobel Prizes. In the wider field of computing, the Turing AwardTuring Award is given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery to a person selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community. The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to the computer f is regarded as by far the most prestigious award.

Emeagwali, cites CNN as describing him as "a father of the InternetThis article is about the Internet the extensive, worldwide computer network available to the public. An internet is a more general term for a set of interconnected computer networks that are connected by internetworking''. WWW information network structu", a claim that has been widely repeated in the popular press. This claim has not been paid much attention in the computer science and Internet communities. Emeagwali bases his claim on the notion that "the Supercomputer is the father of the internet", in that both a supercomputer and the Internet can be viewed as an interconnected network of processing units working cooperatively.

Supercomputers, and parallel processing, predate Emeagwali's work by decades. ENIACENIAC short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete, capable of being reprogrammed by rewiring to solve a full range of computing problems. It was preceded in 1941 by the fully, arguably the first general-purpose digital computer, featured some level of parallel processing. The first supercomputers described as such were probably those developed by a team led by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation. The Connection Machine hardware itself was developed by a team at Thinking Machines by a team featuring a number of well-known computer scientists, at least partly based on founder Danny Hillis's doctoral work. The machines were used for a number of purposes well before Emeagwali's contribution.

The Internet was born out of an interest in connecting disparate computer networks and has been used for a large number of purposes. Many different technologies from the 1960s and 1970s, including packet switching and local area networks, contributed to its development. It is generally agreed that Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn were key figures behind the early development of the protocols used by the Internet, but a huge number of other people contributed to improvments to this basic technology, implementing it on a wide variety of computers and making this implementation widely available, and developing the services that use the infrastructure of the internet (such as Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web). Most of this work occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Emeagwali has not provided any evidence of involvement with any of this work. Supercomputing researchers often made use of the internet as a way of remotely accessing machines; this is one of many applications of the Internet.

Emeagwali has not had any articles published in any journals or conferences published by the IEEE or the Association for Computing Machinery, the two largest and most prestigious bodies in the field of computing.

Some web sites state that he holds patents, for instance an article at the Lemelson-MIT inventor program [3], states that he "holds more than 30 patents". He is not listed in the USPTO patent database, which holds fully searchable records of all US patents dating back to 1976, nor in its pending application database, as of April 2004.

Emeagwali also claims to have performed the "world's fastest computation of 3.1 billion calculations per second in 1989" [4]. This is false; Emeagwali's Gordon Bell Prize was awarded for the best price/performance ratio; the winning entry in the absolute performance category performed almost double the number of calculations. The winning entry in the performance category also had a superior price/performance ratio to Emeagwali's solution; the judges decided to award only one prize to each entry and as the second-best entry Emeagwali received the price/performance prize [5]. In subsequent years, various supercomputers have been used to perform computations far faster and more cost-effectively than Emeagwali as the inevitable result of Moore's Law and improvement in programming techniques.

MY INVESTIGATION OF THE CLAIMS OF PHILIP EMEAGWALI:PRELIMINARY REPORT 1
Framework: Facts and Interpretations
http://ifastudent-cognitivediary..com/2010/09/my-investigation-of-claims-of-philip.html

I understand the controversy over the achievements of the Nigerian scientist Philip Emeagwali to consist of two major groups of questions.These questions are represented by one group I understand as questions of factuality and another I understand as questions of interpretation.

Questions of factuality consist of questions as to whether or not an action took place.Questions of interpretation relate to questions as to the significance of actions established to have taken place.

The questions of factuality here consist in

Did Philip Emeagwali undertake any research in computing?

If he did,at what periods of his life did he do this?

What are the specific processes undergone by Emeagwali in his computing research?

What did Emeagwali achieve in the course of this research?

What use has been made of and references made to Emeagwali's computing achievements by industry, academia and other sources of scholarship?

Does Emeagwali have any patents?

Questions of interpretation involve understanding of the significance of Emeagwali's achievement/s.Do they qualify him to be known as father or one of the fathers of the Internet as is often claimed for him?

My present findings have been reached purely through the use of documents on the Internet and are not significantly different from some other assessments of his work, particularly the Wikipedia essay on him which I understand as the most balanced presentation of his work I have read so far.

I expect to come very soon to a significant degree of conclusion about more facts and move closer to conclusions on the interpretations .

Progress

I have been able to establish one fact that it is already well known.I have been able to establish to the best of my ability another fact that was not so well known.

I am investigating a third claim in the hope of arriving at a factual understanding.

I am still investigating the conclusions drawn by Emeagwali and his supporters from the well known fact I have established.

Structure

I have organised my progress so far in terms of

1.Facts
1a.The Gordon Bell Prize
Sources
1991 University of Michigan newspaper
Links at the IEEE, International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Wikipedia Copy of the Report of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize
Microsoft Microsoft Historical Essay

1b.Patents

Links

1991 University of Michigan newspaper[Linked.Not attached]
Microsoft Historical Essay
Links at the IEEE, International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Attachments

Wikipedia Copy of the Report of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize
IEEE magazine with Emeagwali’s picture


Facts

The Gordon Bell Prize for 1989

I have established the well known fact that Philip Emeagwali won the Gordon Bell Prize for computing in 1989. From what I have understood of this so far,Emeagwali was awarded this prize for his achievement in a computation that performed a massive number of calculations that facilitated complex problems in prospecting for oil. This is a somewhat crude method of describing what the document that is almost certainly the report of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize describes as a very creative and subtle approach to a complex problem in oil prospecting.

Sources

1991 University of Michigan newspaper

The evidence I have for this conclusion about his winning the price and the work he did to win it comes from a report on his work in a University of Michigan newspaper in 1991 at the archives of the university, where he was a graduate student when he won the prize in 1989 .I have tried to find my own sources for the claims I am investigating but could not find any other that supported the Gordon Bell Prize win.

Links at the IEEE, International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The links that refer to the 1989 Godon Bell prize at the site of the International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers proved impossible to open.What I could see of their contents, however, support the claim about the win and the content of the research that enabled that win: "for his work on oil-reservoir simulation".


Wikipedia Copy of the Report of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize by the Judges of the Prize, Almost Certainly from IEEE

This the documents and summation of his work at the Wikipedia entry on Emeagwali one of which is document described as the report of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize by the judges of the prize corroborate the reports of his having won the prize.A detailed description of the challenges he addressed,the methods he used and the work of the other thee groups of leading contests are discussed in detail.

The URL of the Wikipedia copy of the report,when opened in a browser, bears the IEEE logo,giving it some credibility.I will decide whether or not to investigate the authenticity of the report.

I have tried to get a copy of this document from the site of the journal using an institutional account but the article is not present when I get to the site.

Links to the article on the IEEE site,however,list the article as present in that journal.

Microsoft Historical Essay

Having searched the information technology companies best known to me,being Apple,Microsoft,Sun Microsystems,Google and IBM, I found one reference to his name,from Microsoft, the essay "Crabby Celebrates Black History Month" which substantiates the claim that Emeagwali won the prize.

Problems with the Microsoft Historical Essay

The Microsoft historical essay makes some claims that seem to contradict other accounts of Emeagwali’s work. It also makes assertions of the impact of the work that require close investigation to verify since they seem to contradict the virtual blackout on Emeagwali’s name in industry and academic sources.

The report’s complete credibility is also suspect to me because it does not seem to be a statement demonstrating company recognition of a contributor in a field to which the company owes its existence but a recognition of Black achievers in science for the sake of Black history month, laudable as that is, up to a point.

The only sources referred to are journalistic sources and not even specialized science journalism,former US President Bill Clinton and an interview of Emeagwali. There is no scientist quoted or referred to nor is there any statement from Microsoft describing the impact of Emeagwali's work on the systems used by the company or any others in the industry.



Patents

I have not been able to find any evidence that Philip Emeagwali has any patents.This corresponds to the findings of other investigators, who like me,have searched the records of the US Patent office for his name without success.



Interpretation of the Significance of the Emeagwali's Achievement that Won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize

One person, a graduate student, winning against two teams of professional scientists from three research facilities and another team of two researchers

It is important to note that in the report on the 1989 Gordon Bell prize Emeagwali is described as measured against three teams while he is described as working alone. The team that also won a prize,but in in another category,was composed of eight scientists from two scientific establishments. Even though they are described as achieving a computation at a faster speed than Emeagwali. That, to me is offset by the fact he was one person, and a graduate student, against eight industry professionals.

The other teams Emeagwali superseded to collect the prize were a team of three researchers from the University of Texas and another team of two researchers from Brown University and the Institute for Defense Analyses Supercomputing Research Centre.

The Wikipedia Copy of the Report of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize states:

"In the performance category we awarded the prize to a team from Mobil Research and Development and Thinking Machines Corp. The team members are Mark Bromley,Harold Huschman,Alan Edelamn,Bob Lordi,Jacek Myczkowski,and Alex Valievsky of TMC and Doung McCowan and Irshad Mufti of Mobil Resreach.

Their solution of a seismic data-processing problem ran at almost 6 flops on a CM-2 Connection Machine. Not only does this computation rate exceed that of last year’s winner by six times, it is almost twice the peak speed of the Cray Y-MP/8!

We awarded the price/performance prize to Philip Emeagwali of the Civil Engineering Department and Scientific Computing Program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.He also used a CM-2 to solve an oil-reservoir-modelling problem.His model ran at a price/performance of slightly less than 400 Mflops per $1 million. While the Mobil/TMC team achieved almost 500 Mflops per $1 million,we decided to award only one prize per entry."

Creative and computational power in creating a solution to a complex problem in oil prospecting using the CM-2

Foundational to this achievement is the programming of the complex CM-2 in relation to simulating oil reservoirs to develop more cost effective and efficient methods of extracting oil. The report describes in sublime technical prose the mathematical work required to achieve this using the method Emeagwali employed:

"Reservoir-modelling equations are extremely challenging. The simulations must follow many constituents, like water, methane,and liquid hydrocarbons; the equations are highly nonlinear, resulting in steep discontinuities in the solution; the underlying geometry is complicated by irregularities in the rock’s boundaries and flow properties; and realistic results normally require following the flow in three dimensions".

RE: ORJI UZOR KALU’S : LEAVE ABIA ALONE!
We are sickened by the dangerous fumes oozing out of Orji Uzor Kalu’s ’s Camp. It appears suffocating to almost stupor and extinction. But in Abia state forces of good would always triumph against that of darkness and force darkness into extinction instead.

We are also well aware the various means the stink is being spread especially by making Abia South, the business nerve-center, treasure base and home for all Abians, South, Central and North, poor and wealthy, a terror zone.
Gangsterism, armed banditry and kidnapping form the tripod on which Orji Uzor Kalu’s ’s handiwork manifest very glaringly.

We are not surprise in the least that Abia State would be thrown into the prevailing mess. Orji Uzor Kalu’s ’s chequered criminal history, perfected, sealed and delivered in granting him, a miscreant, eight-year rule as executive Governor of Abia State midwife exaggerated crime and crime-related manifest tendencies in this king of the underworld. What we witnessing today in the hands of Orji Uzor Kalu’s and cohorts is a reflection of the extent of decadence our igbo society has sunk due to the invasion of these dangerous misfits in our ranks.
Orji Uzor Kalu’s operates on multi-levels. The Kalus looted Abia to net business empire of their dreams. Having being in political power saddle for eight solid years, and also being avowed advocates of a corrups society, they thrived in illegal importation of arms using SLOK outfits. The Kalus equipped and armed their recruits to the teeth with armaments. Massive wealth from 13% derivation have been employed to boost international business of arms supply.

Orji Uzor Kalu’s and his dark monarchy are adepts in psychic science. The weakly developed humankind attracted into igbo society today falls easy prey to the mere domineering dark machinations. The dark monarchy intimidates their victims with dearth and pretended and purported extraneous influences when in actual fact they are only basking in lawful attraction of like.

The liberation of Abia coordinated by Executive Governor; T.A. Orji (Ochendo) is lawful in time. The bandage has fallen from most people’s eyes who do not belong to Orji Uzor Kalu’s ’s psychic community, and chaos has ensued in his ranks. Only his like remained with the Kalus to further perpetuate fear, suffering and doubt amongst Abians.
Orji Uzor Kalu’s has amassed so much wealth in his eight-year rule. He is prepared to throw about his lost with reckless abandon. The eventful pillaging of Abia treasury brought Abia to the worst poverty level so that the weak lot would be tied to his apron strings – and become very willing servants, ready to do his biddings.
Orji Uzor Kalu’s , a leader of the hoodlums, is charismatic in his own right. As the 2011 election close in, he is prepared to showcase and deploy his arsenals. The violence in Abia now is part of his master plan.
But Orji Uzor Kalu’s has woefully failed already and Chief (Dr.) T.A Orji (Ochendo) liberates Abia from the tethers of vile dynasty.
Orji Uzor Kalu’s you are done! Enough is enough for Abia is free!
For: Abia Coalition for Change